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The numbers making news around China during the week of April 15, 2013

13 percent
Amount Yum! Brand’s China sales were down in March as its ads failed to regain customers concerned about the quality of its chicken.Bloomberg

15 to 18 trillion yuan
What the head of China's National Audit Office (NAO) recently estimated China’s current outstanding local debt was by the end of 2012. This would be equal to 29 to 35 percent of the country’s GDP. Reuters

146 percent
Increase in the average rental price for a Beijing apartment since 2004. Economic Observer

7.7 percent
China’s growth during the first three months of the year compared with a year earlier - short of the 8 percent that economists polled by Reuters had projected, and slower than during the previous three months, when gross domestic product rose 7.9 percent year-on-year. New York Times

10 billion yuan
Losses the poultry industry has suffered since the outbreak of the H7N9 virus. People’s Daily

16 percent
Proportion of the mattresses sold in Beijing that contain excessive amounts of potentially toxic chemicals, according to a report from the Beijing Consumer Association. Global Times

2 percent
Proportion of world trade that’s made up of Chinese counterfeits, according to a report by the World Customs Organization The report also says that 75 percent of all fake goods seized worldwide were produced in China. South China Morning Post